Great venues for this conference. I particularly enjoyed the Spanish olive oil tasting last night, as well as the olive liqueur made on a Croatian island

Great turnout yesterday, and a lovely opportunity to share my book with colleagues :)

One of the last slides:

Thanks! It's likely available through your uni library as a PDF, as it's within Brill's LAAx series: brill.com/display/titl.... Hopefully open access in a couple years. I'm also giving an online lecture on it on Tuesday through ANAMED.

I did my PhD on the archaeology of this topic in one large region, to ask this question from a bottom-up perspective for a view of agency outside of Constantinople/Rome; the church’s power was not monolithic or uniform. It was published last year :)

Thanks!

Link for abstract submission here: www.romansocietyrac.ac.uk/ractrac-2026...

I love the phrasing here: "an attempt to institutionalise the role of the bishop as the one carrying the monastic nuclear suitcase"

Hi hi!